In recognition of her many years of devoted service to Guild Wars and the Guild Wars community, players gathered for in a farewell party for ArenaNet's community relations manager, Gaile Gray.

The very special event started at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Friday, April 4, 2008 and ran all weekend, ending at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Monday, April 7, 2008. Starting on Saturday, April 5, The Frog's personal friend, The Rabbit, hosted a series of final extravaganzas so big they spanned the better part of three days.

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The Rabbit, The Frog, and many of their woodland friends gathered together to host the largest farewell party in Tyrian history. To prepare for the send-off festive items were collected so they could be brought to the party.

Special, explosive rewards were dropped by defeated creatures.

The creatures assembled for the event also brought a variety of special treats they traded for trophies from their homelands.

The Rabbit and The Frog on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday were joined for a series of extravaganzas. Every three hours, this duo hosted a light-hearted party, complete with dancing, prizes, and a conga line too!

To help the celebration proceed in style, The Frog bestowed party attendees with an extra-special buff that granted bearers double points towards their Party Animal title track. To get the biggest bang for your buck, attendees saved up fireworks and used them at one of the extravaganzas during this weekend.

From at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Saturday and concluding at Noon Pacific on Monday, The Frog made his appearance every three hours in the three festival cities.

Every 3 hours, starting from noon (PDT) on Saturday to noon (PDT) on Monday, the Frog visited Lion's Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, and Kamadan, Jewel of Istan for a surprise party by the Rabbit. Both the Rabbit and the Frog gave players instructions, in the form of capitalized emote names, which must be followed to receive a set of fireworks: 1 Champagne Popper, 1 Bottle Rocket, and 1 Sparkler. Eventually, the Frog would lead players on a Conga, a traditional staple of Gaile and Frog visits in the past, at which point players received the Party Time! effect, lasting until the end of the visit (roughly 11 minutes). If all emotes were performed correctly, including continuing to play a musical instrument or dance for a long period where no emotes are called out, it was possible to receive a total of 22 sets of fireworks, worth a total of 132 Party Animal points if used under the effects of Party Time!.

One unscheduled visit occured at 12:01AM PDT on Saturday and one scheduled visit was missed at 3:01AM PDT on Monday. Both are believed to be caused by the unusual start and end times of noon rather than midnight, and both problems were fixed before they affected other visits.

A bug caused some players to see a white box when using Champagne Poppers, Bottle Rockets, and Sparklers. This was fixed after a short while.